Thank you Houston for helping us promote responsible recycling of e-waste by dropping off your retired computer and network equipment, electronic components, batteries and even copier machines as part of our first TMC e-Waste Collection. The Council also extends its gratitude to the volunteers and member institutions who assisted with the collection. Volunteers accepted 16,000 lbs. of e-waste in the first five hours of collection and we expect that final totals will exceed 30,000 lbs.

Congratulations to the e-waste donor who won the iPad drawing and has been notified. Based upon the success of this effort we plan to make the TMC e-Waste Collection an annual event.

If you are involved in disposal of e-waste at a TMC member institution, also take a moment to complete our brief one page online survey regarding how your institution disposes of e-waste. Your responses to this survey will help us develop recommendations for e-waste recycling best practices.
click here to complete our e-waste disposal survey

For information regarding disposal of e-waste using R2 certified and e-Stewards recyclers, see our Sustainability Resources page.

The TMC Sustainability Advisory Council is one of the 21 advisory councils that have been formed over the years to address important issues in the Texas Medical Center. We evolved from the Houston Medical Center Recycling Collaborative, which grew out of a recycling initiative that began several years ago at Baylor College of Medicine. Our mission is to support the sustainability policy of each member institution, and facilitate a systematic process to identify sustainability opportunities, share best practices and serve as a coordinating body in the execution of TMC-wide sustainability initiatives. As the world’s largest medical center, the TMC has a population of students, health care professionals and other workers totaling more than 100,000 – about the same size as Berkeley, Calif.; Cambridge, Mass.; or Norman, Okla. To provide the broadest array of sustainability services to the medical center, the advisory council has four active work groups - Earth Day, Best Practices, Measurement and Outreach.
learn more about the council